misoneism
The distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.
uncountable
In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the "golden rule" as an "iridescent dream" of a lunatic. Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science.
Where it comes from
From Italian misoneismo (after Cesare Lombroso). Equivalent to miso- + neo- + -ism.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry misoneism (CC BY-SA 4.0).